Wu accused the Empress Wang of strangling the child (whom ... and taking the name Wu Zetian. But as brutal as her rise to power undoubtedly was, her rule proved to be an enlightened one.

The Empress was then exiled and Wu Zetian took her place ... Her hit-list on the way to power was pretty impressive, if rumour is true – her sister, brothers, the emperor, and her mother ...

In the annals of history, few monarchs have achieved the staggering wealth attributed to Empress Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in China’s history. With an estimated net worth of US$16 ...

But long before, any of them existed a powerful Chinese Empress Wu Zetian of Tang dynasty, boasted of wealth of around 16 trillion USD, which could overshadow combined net worth of the wealthiest ...

In Wu Zetian (H10-1), Hirst employs one of his signature motifs: butterflies. The present work comes from Hirst's Empresses series, each design dedicated to one of history's great female rulers. The ...

Qianling, the tomb of the third Tang emperor, Li Zhi, and Empress Wu Zetian, is located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Qianxian County seat and 80 kilometers from Xi'an. Here also ...